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▪ I. † geir Obs.
Forms: 6–7 geire, geyre, 7 gier, geer, 7–8 geir, 7, 9 geier.
[a. Du. gier = G. geier, MHG. gîr, gîre, OHG. gîr, kîr, not found in the other Teut. languages.]
A vulture.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Vultur, a rauenous birde called a voulter or geyre. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 43/1 Argent three griphs or geires gules crowned gold: this griph or geire is a kind of an eagle. 1601Holland Pliny I. 353 The Vultures or Geires which flie from sweet ointments, are desirous yet of other odors and perfumes. 1615T. Thomas Lat. Dict., Vultur, a ravenous birde called a vulter, a geyre or grappe. 1721–1800Bailey, Geir, a Vulture.
b. Comb. geir-eagle (= G. geier-adler), used in the Bible of 1611 to render Heb. rāhām, supposed to be the Neophron percnopterus, a species of vulture.
1611Bible Lev. xi. 18 The Swanne, and the Pellicane, and the Gier-eagle. ― Deut. xiv. 17 The Geer-eagle. 1835Browning Paracelsus i. 19 Ask the gier-eagle [ed. 1888 geier-eagle] why she stoops at once Into the vast and unexplored abyss!
▪ II. geir(e
obs. form of gear n. |